Re: I do not want to select a coding system

[pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)]

"B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes:

> Bruce Korb wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Every now and then, it becomes completely impossible to save the
>> contents of a new file I am creating.  Emacs demands I select a
>> coding system and none of them are plain old vanilla ASCII text..
>> It seems really nice and clever and egalitarian to allow for so many
>> coding systems.  It is really wonderful.  But compilers want ASCII and
>> I cannot get plain ascii.  In the end, I go into a shell and type:
>> 
>> cat > myfile.c <<\_EOF_
>> <<paste-a-gazillion-lines>>
>> _EOF_
>> 
>> and revisit "myfile.c".  Works like a charm, but is an incredible hassle.
>> 
>> I only want ASCII.  I've waded through the bazillion lines of configurable
>> stuff, too, and there is no obvious to me selection to say, "I always,
>> always, always edit ASCII text".  What is the magic?  Thanks.
>> 
>> Regards, Bruce
>> 
>> 
>
>
> us-ascii and iso-safe are coding systems. Maybe putting
>
> ;; -*- coding: iso-safe -*-
>
> at the top of your files would work.


The OP wants ASCII, so:

;; -*- coding:us-ascii -*-


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